found: African American National Biography, accessed September 21, 2014, via Oxford African American Studies Center database:(Williams, John Alfred; fiction writer, print journalist, educator; born 05 December 1925 in Jackson, Mississippi, United States; entered the U.S. Navy (1943); bachelor's degree in Journalism and English, Syracuse University (1950); publicity director for Comet Press Books; editor of Negro Market Newsletter; European correspondent for Ebony and Jet magazines; his first novel, The Angry Ones (1960) was selected to receive the Prix de Rome from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; he remains the only candidate to ever have had the prize retracted; lecturer in writing at City College of the City University of New York, he has held teaching positions at more than a dozen colleges and universities)